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Early Addition: We've reached peak NYC pothole season
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Good Tuesday morning in New York City, where there's a push to raise the minimum wage to $30 an hour.
Here's what's happening:
- Democrat Allison Ziogas, a 42-year-old labor organizer and first-time political candidate, has hired Morris Katz, a young consultant who worked on Mayor Mamdani's campaign, to boost her chances of unseating Republican Nicole Malliotakis in Staten Island's congressional district.
- The potholes in (and around) New York City are really bad right now.
- A federal jury yesterday found real-estate agents Oren and Tal Alexander and their brother, Alon Alexander, guilty of sex trafficking.
- Mayor Mamdani has been eating out for iftar.
- There's a trumpeter swan in the East River.
- People are putting rubber duckies on Jeeps.
- Donald Glover is Yoshi.
- And finally, the other side of swans:
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